A computational model was developed to simulate the responses of auditory-nerve (AN) fibers in cat. The incorporation of both the level-independent frequency glide and the level-dependent compressive nonlinearity into a phenomenological model for the AN was the primary focus of this work. The ability of this model to process arbitrary sound inputs makes it a useful tool for studying peripheral auditory processing.

Cell Type(s): Cochlea hair outer GLU cell; Auditory nerve

Model Concept(s): Temporal Pattern Generation

Simulation Environment: C or C++ program; MATLAB

Implementer(s): Tan, Qing

References:

Tan Q, Carney LH. (2003). A phenomenological model for the responses of auditory-nerve fibers. II. Nonlinear tuning with a frequency glide. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 114 [PubMed]